Nigel Tranter: 74 books

Past Master tells the story of Patrick, Master of Gray, in the era of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, and of his remarkable daughter Mary. With the end of Elizabeth I's long reign in sight, Patrick, Master of Gray, is determined that James VI should succeed to the English throne. Nothing...

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, one of the most exciting and romantic periods of British history, the famous Rob Roy MacGregor and his gallant nephew Gregor, a fierce young Highlander loyal to the cause, led the MacGregor clan into battle against the English Army. Outlawed and landless,...

After the Jacobite Rising of 1745, in which the Highland clans took part, the clan system was destroyed and the relationship between the Chief of the clan and the people changed from a communal one to that of landlord and tenant. The “Clearances” of the Highlands took place between 1785 and 1850...

An old story from the loose lips of a whiskey-sodden seaman sets Glaswegian giant Roddy Roy MacGregor off in search of wealth beyond his wildest dreams. On the tiny Hebridean Isle of Inishewen, he soon finds himself embroiled in a devious and highly illegal plot to raise the sunken treasure of a legendary...

Alexander III of Scotland was just seven years old when he inherited the throne. South of the border, England's King Henry III saw this as his chance to assert his paramountcy over the kingdom. At the age of ten, the boy was married to Henry's daughter. But through the hazards of power politics...

First she was Margaret the refugee. A Saxon princess, sister of Edgar Atheling who, but for William the Conqueror, would have been King of England. She came to Scotland in 1069. Beautiful, sympathetic and devout, she was an unlikely consort to the rough and ready Malcolm King of Scots and slayer...

John Thriepwood comes to Scotland in 1946 with his small son after inheriting the family estate. The now Lord Thriepwood finds a ruined and neglected estate. This absorbing and easily read story quickly captures the readers interest and sympathy, as it recounts the perseverance and willing hard work needed in the face of continued problems and the initial mistrust of the local people

A brilliant leader, a renowned strategist, a talented moderate in a bigoted age: James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, is a man of great charm and steadfast loyalty. Devoting his life to King Charles I leads him to reluctant involvement in national affairs: to intrigue, violence, treachery and battle....

Once again Scotland was fighting for her survival as a free and independent nation. Robert the Bruce's legacy, three years after his death in 1329, is in danger. With a five-year-old heir guarded by an ageing and diminishing band of lieutenants, the English King, Edward III, has seen his opportunity....

Here is a simple tale of a simple man to whom simple circumstances---and his neighbours---proclaimed that he required a wife to look after his children, his cows and his goat.  Since most of the women on his native island were near relatives to himself, it seemed that he would have to go to look...

Set in the 1930's, this is the tale of a modern Highland Clearance.  Lord Holtby, a self-made Yorkshire woollen manufacturer and millionaire, bought a large West Highland estate from a descendant of the Stewarts of Monach.  His first action was to replace the factor, Mark Stewart who was,...

Only eighteen years old when she returned to Scotland to rule, the beautiful but unfortunate Mary Stuart was in dire need of protection: from the savage religious intolerance of the time, from scoundrels in high places, even from the men she injudiciously married. While John Knox, the Regent...

A humorous tale of a Chicago Trade Union boss discovering his “Scotch” roots and making his mark on his ancestral home in a Scottish island.

Born of one of Scotland's noblest families, Patrick Gray was fascinating, irresistible, ambitious and ruthless. Involved in a daring plot to free the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots, and immersed in the intrigues of Elizabeth I's Tudor court, he strode imperiously across the turbulent stage of European...